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Bible in Basic English

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem.

New American Standard Bible

By Your favor do good to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.

King James Version

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Holman Bible

In Your good pleasure, cause Zion to prosper;
build the walls of Jerusalem.

International Standard Version

Show favor to Zion in your good pleasure; and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

A Conservative Version

Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Amplified


By Your favor do good to Zion;
May You rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Darby Translation

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Julia Smith Translation

Do Zion good in thy good will: thou wilt build the walls of Jerusalem.

King James 2000

Do good in your good pleasure unto Zion: build you the walls of Jerusalem.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do good in your favor toward Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Modern King James verseion

Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O be favourable and gracious unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

NET Bible

Because you favor Zion, do what is good for her! Fortify the walls of Jerusalem!

New Heart English Bible

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

The Emphasized Bible

Do good, in thy good-pleasure, unto Zion, Wilt thou build the walls of Jerusalem!

Webster

Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

World English Bible

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

Youngs Literal Translation

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you. 18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure, building up the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then you will have delight in the offerings of righteousness, in burned offerings and offerings of beasts; then they will make offerings of oxen on your altar.


Cross References

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, You see what a bad condition we are in; how Jerusalem is a waste, and its doorways burned with fire: come, let us get to work, building up the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer be put to shame.

Psalm 25:22

Give Israel salvation, O God, out of all his troubles.

Psalm 69:35

For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

Psalm 137:5-6

If I keep not your memory, O Jerusalem, let not my right hand keep the memory of its art.

Psalm 147:2

The Lord is building up Jerusalem; he makes all the outlaws of Israel come together.

Isaiah 51:3

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

Isaiah 58:12

And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

Isaiah 62:1

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

Isaiah 62:6-7

I have put watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will not keep quiet day or night: you who are the Lord's recorders, take no rest,

Jeremiah 51:50

You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.

Daniel 9:25

Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork.

Micah 7:11

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.

Zechariah 2:5

For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire round about her, and I will be the glory inside her.

Luke 12:32

Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

2 Corinthians 11:28-29

In addition to all the other things, there is that which comes on me every day, the care of all the churches.

Ephesians 1:5

As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,

Ephesians 1:9

Having made clear to us the secret of his purpose, in agreement with the design which he had in mind, to put into his hands

Philippians 2:13

For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure.

2 Thessalonians 1:11

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

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